skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German police forces take over control of Emotet (German)
While I understand the concept it hasn't always borne fruit for example in the case of ww1. Sure Eastern Europe was less coupled but that wasn't true of western Europe.

I think too much emphasis gets placed on the material, it is the basic needs of humans after all. However many peoples material needs are satisfied to a absolute basic level already, after that there is diminishing returns.

Take my home of Northern Ireland. In the current state most people have absolute coverage of material needs. Yet there is a fairly large cohort of young that join military groups. In fact one of fundamental problems is a lack of purpose, an immaterial concept with no inherent value.

Europe became peaceful during a stage of existential threat of Soviet invasion. In that Western Europe had a purpose.
Standard touch-typing advice is to use opposing hands to type combinations like "Shift+A".

On an ergonomic, split keyboard this might be less important: the modifier keys are often under the thumbs, and on both sides.

Also, it's fairly easy to program the keys however you like, e.g. make a "Fn" key, so Fn+DvorakQ sends Ctrl+X.
Best German/English translator: https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. It’s a secondary source that aggregates knowledge from primary sources.

For all the problems wikipedia does have, this isn’t one of them. It’s not their job to second guess published research.
Boris Johnson Lied-Covid-19 Has Not Killed 100k People in the UK
Galant is much denser than MDF. It's like a monolithic slab. It's way smoother and has finer grain than standard MDF.

For the table tops, IKEA's Professional Office Buying Guide quotes:

"Tested for tough treatment: The BEKANT desk series have been tested according to the highest standards for professional office use (EN 527, ANSI/BIFMA X:5.5 for desks and EN14074, EN1730 and ANSI/BIFMA X:5.5 for conference tables) and meets our strict standards for quality and durability."

Galant's table tops are rebranded BEKANT recently, however it's the same stuff AFAIK.

The buying guide is here: https://cdn.ikea.com.tr/buying-guides/Professional_office_bg...
MVP Development – 15 Steps to Build an Effective MVP
I really loved the Rails console for developing web apps. Write a few lines on the REPL, then past them in an app/model file.

Knowing Rust (and other strong typed langs) I understand that it is not so easy to implement this workflow for these languages. But looking at this project I kind of have new hopes. With the strong languages it should even be possible to have intellisense-like completion/suggestion available on the REPL!

Would it be, eventually, possible use Evcxr for this purpose?
I read the article.

Some comments:

1) The author's focus is on an executive champion being necessary, but an IC who knows all of the departments can also force success. The problem is that mgmt. is a club, and some managers will resent an IC exercising power.

2) What's not mentioned is that the career/political risk is very high for whoever the champion is. Often nobody will step forward in that situation since the participants are not all direct reports. This is where founders, who often know the most about a company, and can absorb the risk, are invaluable.

An anecdote about Cisco is included, but the Boeing 737 MAX failures are an even better example. Very few people know aerospace software, hardware, compliance and mfg. at the same time.

It's an organizational case of falling down and not being able to get up.
C++ DataFrame for Financial Analysis
D-bus is a process discovery and communication protocol. It allows processes to universally interact with each other in a high-level manner versus requiring bespoke IPC mechanisms (low-level sockets, signals, shm, etc).
> without your home looking from a certain area.

Did you mean "era" given that you mentioned time? "Area" also sort of makes sense which is why I wanted to clarify.
> Many stories like this and people wonder why the general public is less "believing" in science lately. I.

Eh im not sure bad studies is the cause.

Scientists, especially doctors, wanting to use their authority i some debates while 2 of them can be saying completely opposed things maybe, however, contribute...
Quasar and Ionic aren’t native though. They give you the JS app in a browser packaged into an app. React/Vue native give you a real native byte code app.
So it is a matter of opinion then? Something that needs to be assessed? Where different assessment strategies can produce a different outcome?
If I could afford the time to learn Rust, the frameworks used by Firefox, the associated toolchain, and the Firefox codebase, and the time to maintain a fork, I would love to do that.
It's actually short seller-fueled... I wonder if this title is stupidity or malice. With "Wall Street" journal, I have my favorite...
There are also seemingly companies, who just blatantly ignore such regulations.. https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/
Repairing a couch is not an option unless you're skilled in re-apolstering.
"Disabled" is being replaced by "differently abled".
A good physical analogy is the historical Soviet recreation of USA B-29 Superfortress as Tu-4, based on copying all the parts (based on 4 captured aircraft), but needing to rework to the metric standards (i.e. so wherever you have, for example, 1/4 inch i.e. 6.35mm sheet metal or fasteners or whatever, you have to pick 6 or 7mm instead (because your "different framework" doesn't supply 1/4 inch stuff), which changes the weight distribution and structural integrity, which requires additional tweaks). You're making a functional copy, still took more a year just for the designs. The same with other physical objects - as long as the underlying framework or supply chain changes, it tends to require re-engineering.
This concept failed multiple times.

Yugoslavia had a common market and a lot of mixed marriages.

Austria-Hungary had a common market whose collapse after 1918 did damage to all the successor countries.

The USSR, while being a not-capitalist society, was very much economically integrated.

So was Iraq and Lebanon prior to their civil wars.
GUI builder for desktop applications in 90s were really useful in increasing the productivity of programmers. It is sad to see how complex it is to build the UI of a web application in comparison. And there is no definite answer on the best way to do it neither.

Of course now you can expose your app to the whole world. But instead of thinking what it means at the application level you spend lot of brain cycles just setting up the styles and uncoupling presentation and logic.
Hate is a mania, a meme that infects the host. It isn't just for us that we seek to stop it, but for the infected as well.
From the man page:

NQDIR Directory where lock files/job output resides.
Each NQDIR can be considered a separate queue.

Whether or not the default should be $XDG_CACHE_HOME/nq/<something> is a different question. For my own use cases with nq I like the current directory being used, but it would obviously be just as easy for me to set `NQDIR=.`.
The problem is exports; the government is already making money on extraction companies selling their goods abroad. If they burden them with extra taxes, that'll get translated to the price other nations pay, which will reduce exports, and thus reduce government's profit. In a competitive exports market, a country with environmental taxes will lose to the one without.
Not sure how relevant to Hacker News this post is, but this guy definitely portrays the mentality of a lot of people I met from California / Bay Area / SF: hard aggressive stance on anything Right-wing, screaming about social justice, complaining about everything, demanding to have everything they want their way etc. This is a bad attitude to have when relocating and traveling. I would be surprised if he did not lose his job.
There was a study that showed people perceived individual messages with periods to be sent by angry people, or something like that. I wish I could find it again.
Banks really did use sexual violence as a signifier of some character or faction being supremely evil. Off the top of my head [spoilers ahoy, naturally], there's the institutional rape for entertainment in the empire of Azad in The Player of Games, there's the Archimandrite Luseferous in The Algebraist, and there's a fairly explicit scene in Transition. I think there are more examples, but it's been a few years since I read the books so I can't remember the details.
Yep that's the BILLY that has the folding wood panel you have to nail down. The reason they fold it is to keep the package small. You can re-do it a couple of times if you put the holes in a different spot but it's not great. Especially the folding bit is just tape so it can tear easily.

It is exceptionally cheap though.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/world%E2%80%99s-...
> to get a long term net effect we'd have to bury them about as deep as the fossils we are excavating.

Why? What is wrong with capturing carbon the way trees naturally do? (Honest question)
I find that changing the layout creates significant mental overhead for me as well, so I just don't do it. I use the NEO layout [1] which contains all the characters and symbols I could possibly need in reasonable locations. I barely need to leave the home row to write any of the symbols needed during programming or writing TeX.

As for physically different keyboards, I've found it to be a much lesser issue than I expected. I recently got a Moonlander [2] due to general hand and wrist pain that could only be attributed to strain from typing.

I took care to map the layout quite closely and the physical layout was almost immediately usable. I started at around 2/3 my normal typing speed but was back to 100% in a matter of a week.

Going back to a normal keyboard takes minimal effort. I can still type on them quickly, I just loathe them more than I did before now that I know how much more comfortable it could be.

[1] https://neo-layout.org/

[2] https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
My understanding is that it's actually ~40mm (or even 42mm). But of course that's not a standard focal length, so either 50mm or 35mm is closest.

EDIT: Ah yes, I remembered correctly https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogr...
Yes, we'll definitely be looking at having an Amplitude source connector, the issue is already here: http://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/1457
Nothing to do with planned obsolescence. Everything to do with getting better performance.

In desktops it is possible to get a hefty 10C reduction with liquid metal.
Josiah's videos about demystifying the COVID vaccine all got taken down, then the entire channel got shut down. Super disappointing move by YouTube. It was definitely one of my favorite channels for science education.
Great analysis, thanks!

This explanation of the TSMC is bottleneck is very useful context to understand the $28B capital plan they announced earlier this month:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/tsmc-prof...

That money is supposed to build a new US-based fab, among other things. I’m very glad to see that, but it does seem hard to scale up manufacturing capacity at the highest performance levels.

Perhaps there will always be a single “best” fab globally, which makes all the top-end products for everyone and commands way higher prices than everything else, while inspiring hand-wringing about risk concentration.
Besides the fact you can normally buy replacement from ikea (or ebay), most of the stuff is fixable via epoxy and wood sawdust(or even cardboard pieces as filler), wood filler accomplishes the task as well. Brass inserts (again epoxied) + machine bolts can fix up any holes/stripped wood screws. As a fast fix insert tooth picks in the hole along with PVA.

Of course in many cases is easier (faster/cheaper) to replace the entire 'thing', altogether.
We could turn the trees into furniture and surupticiously spread them out in buildings around the world. Hey wait a minute?
I think the basis for that pretense is that every digital intermediary can compete with every other digital intermediary, unlike a human intermediary who can only effectively compete with other human intermediaries in the same geographic area. This causes very different effects on pricing. It's probably premature to say that it will drive the profit margins of the intermediaries almost to zero, but that is one possible outcome.
I should also say that economic coupling works best with similar countries, similar economies, views etc.
I.e. France and Germany.

Economics will not however solve issues that go beyond money. Both China and US are ideological, those views won't coalesce through money.
> I wonder why OpenBSD wrote their own version.

With most other projects, I would smell a major case of Not-Invented-Here, but the OpenBSD developers seem to have an impressive track record of actually learning from mistakes, both from their own and those made by others.

> knowing how the sausage is made, they thought it was better to have a salad

I love that phrase! (Coincidentally, an engineer working in food processing once explained to me how chicken nuggets are made (while we were eating!), I have mostly avoided them ever since...)
There are cheaper, lighter, and softer but less durable solid wood pieces made of pine and similar woods. They don't feel much heavier than the IKEA manufactured wood furniture I have but at least have a decently satisfying grain if that's what you're going for.
There is an SDL backend for Tk but it's not part of the normal distribution:

http://androwish.org/home/home
It's funny how people mention how they wouldn't be able to make use of all the features of this camera in comments.

If you ask me, that's trivial: try shooting babies or toddlers indoors (then try two or more of them in the same shot), and that 30 images per second, quick eye tracking and high ISO would prove handy right of the bat.

Now, does it make sense to get this camera and suitable lenses (probably as much money) to do that?

Only if you are really, really rich. :)
If you are into this, please consider A O Barut's dover book.
3-4 hours of deep work is fairly standard I think. The rest of the time is not necessarily something I wouldn't define as "hard work" (emails, meetings, etc...) - but it's not slacking either.
There's the Cloud Nine C989 [1] (though I don't know how the mechanism to keep the two halves attached works), or for a DIY option there's the NEK Type A [2].

For the profile of the keys themselves, you can make small changes to an existing keyboard by changing the keycaps -- although it's not always easy to find all the sizes required for an unusual keyboard. See [3]. I have SA keycaps on an otherwise-flat keyboard.

[1] https://c9ergo.com/products/cloud-nine-c989m-ergonomic-keybo...

[2] https://github.com/ecopoesis/nek-type-a

[3] http://xahlee.info/kbd/keycap_profiles.html
It seems highly unlikely that the paint in that bottle retained its original color-affecting properties over all this time.

When using it to touch up machines that have approximately the same age, you may get lucky and the colors resemble eachother, as appears to be the case in the article.

Attempting to determine the color identity (e.g. pantone or hex) of apple beige however seems impossible using old paint.

I am not a chemist though, so it may be possible that this paint has chemical properties that cause it to retain its color-affecting properties over long periods of time. I just think it's unlikely.
I'm from Europe too. Blue(ish) is daylight colour while red(ish) is night colour. Staring at blue light hinders melatonine production, affecting the sleep cycle. Hence the existence of products like Redshift [0] and Twighlight [1]. Increasingly, this is built into visual interfaces, both my Gnome and Android have things called "night light" or something similar.

[0]: http://jonls.dk/redshift/

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
Sure, but my experience is that this is more in line with the client's or manager's mental model and expectations. Eg, a designer will lay out some sort of user story which typically defines "flows" from page to page. And they don't expect that the work on this new "flow" will break the existing ones. In this case sharing code can become a liability. And this sh* happened a bunch of times where other devs trying to be clever, instead of just duplicating a UI component or page and making a few changes, they put in a bunch of params to support the new use cases (a better way of course is to extract common elements). The result as predicted was a spaghetti mess to untangle. Refactoring it is like dismantling a bomb.
> for physical products, drafting/design is nearly free (capex & opex of the assembly phase dominates)

It really depends on the industry. It's particularly bad in heavily regulated industries (pharma, aerospace, ...). On the other hand, creating a blog is probably the equivalent of designing a new t-shirt.
Personal opinion: Tcl was lots of fun and somewhat unique in being both a convenient scripting language and an easily embeddable language. But in the end Python and Lua became better replacements for those two specific areas (that's at least how it went in my case, I did lots of Tcl in the late 90's and early 2ks, but then switched to Python for "cross-platform-scripting").

There's still no proper replacement for Tk GUIs as far as I'm aware though, even Python uses it for building quick'n'dirty cross-platform UIs.
I think it can be read either way. In some sections of narration the Culture is described as a true symbiosis, but elsewhere it's admitted and implied that the minds usually end up with more power than humans, and in multiple culture novels humans do get manipulated and used by drones/minds to various extents - e.g. Player of Games.

It's not a symbiosis in the strongest practical sense. There isn't mutual reliance for survival: if all humans suddenly disappeared, the minds/drones and accompanying infrastructure would survive perfectly fine. But culturally (lower case) you could definitely argue that losing the humans would destroy the fundamental identity of the Culture.

I like that while this topic was gradually touched on over the series, mostly the reader is left to make up their own mind.
I've looked at a few Moonlander setups for the keyboard layout that I use on their site [1][2][3] and to my mind the right half is simply missing one column of keys to get a proper cursor key block.
Even the lying-L option ─┘ would mean missing the right shift key (which of course should probably be on the thumb block) and getting used to something different.

I'm not saying it wouldn't work, but for me being from Germany the keyboard is even more expensive than it is anyway and I'm not sure I'm willing to pay that much for the hope that I can adjust to it.

[1] https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/moonlander/layouts/mzD9d/la...

[2] https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/moonlander/layouts/60ynN/la...

[3] https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/moonlander/layouts/jXjMx/la...
I have tried a bunch of things for this issue. I tried placing a trackpad between the two halves, I tried it on either side as well. It didn't really work for me.

What I landed on is a) mapping the mouse to an extra layer that I use when I only need minimal movement, b) using VIM extensions for as many programs as possible, including my browser and c) just using a normal mouse otherwise.
>But it's going to have a considerably higher CPU usage as well.

I am going to assume in three to four years time this wouldn't be a problem? I mean a 16nm Quad Core ARM Cortex SoC are only $15.

Unfortunately no consumer NAS are implementing ZFS. ( TrueNAS offering isn't really consumer NAS )
That's called a strategic reserve
The thing is that private companies also have 1st amendment rights, and ideas like “we need to force FAANGs to do business with horrible racists like the people who run Parler” is much more of a threat to free speech than “Parler can’t buy a fleet of r4xlarge EC2 instances to broadcast their racist propaganda.”
Just for scale, one of the 3 national forests in my region is about 900,000 acres.

It's not really restricted from development, but it's land that no one is in any hurry to develop.
I was talking about tracking being illegal. I said nothing about the user being able to allow it....
Isn’t there a GitHub issue submission page?
Yes, indeed, we do. This should come within the next 3 months.
Here's the issue if you want to keep track of our progress on the matter: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/768
It looks very promising and is something I wish to scale Quantale(https://quantale.io/) to, It's a project I am working on, which has very similar logic of adding data sources and make it available for data visualization. Congrats on your launch!
> We all like to think asking questions doesn't make you look stupid but the reality is, it does.

This is the opposite of my experience. I hear alarm bells when a junior engineer says they understand something without asking many questions. Conversely, those who ask the most questions stick out as engaged and intelligent. Even silly clarifying questions often reassure me that the engineer is diligent and doesn't want to waste time due to silly misunderstandings. That's not something I 'like to think' based on some theory I'm pushing. It's just the pragmatic outcome of years of experience of junior devs fucking things up or wasting time because they didn't make sure they understood something first. Even if you're right that somehow we evolved to find people stupid when they ask questions, I imagine that would play a tiny role compared to the intuitions we develop from actual experience on the job.
Which companies? I'll start applying :-)
From a different point of view, I would say that I don't see their furniture as "designed to be disposable", more that there is good marked for re-use through other people.

Spotted a few comments from people saying they have had second hand items (3rd, 4th etc) - and I think that in my head is where my version of "disposable" has come from.

When I no longer want an Ikea product because it doesn't fit, or no longer needed - I will sell it online, and get a new one - for me I have "disposed of it" but actually its been "recycled" to someone that really wants it.

Anecdotally - I have never thrown away any IKEA furniture due to old age or defects. It's always been passed on, or I have received a new one. - Admittedly this is just my POV, and I fully understand people have their own experiences - but I would like to think that in some small part, I am helping with that sustainable process.

IKEA in this case, I am glad that they are at least trying to do something (again not saying other companies don't but we are in a thread about IKEA's recent work!) - and I would like to think that to round of the ring of sustainability that it isn't just the companies that need to input, its the people that use it too.

Maybe I am being too idealistic, but I will do what I can in my small little bubble to be part of that sustainable process!

I realise I got this far and didn't think about the point I was trying to make! - But yeah, from my perspective I don't feel like IKEA design it to be disposable, but I am sure other people have other experiences too :)
Here's the whole list of culture ship names per novel -- share and enjoy!

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft

>Legacy: The autonomous spaceport drone ships Of Course I Still Love You, Just Read the Instructions 1 & 2, operated by SpaceX, were named after General Contact Units mentioned in The Player of Games, as a posthumous homage to Banks by Elon Musk.[11] The construction of a fourth drone ship, named A Shortfall of Gravitas, was announced by Elon Musk via Twitter on February 12, 2018.[12] It is named after the Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, a ship mentioned in Look to Windward and Matter as a GSV and GCU respectively.